Cruz, whose father immigrated to the United States from Cuba, said “there is no stronger advocate for legal immigration in the U.S. Senate” than himself. He cited his support for an amendment to the Gang of Eight’s 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill to expand the number of H-1B visas.
According to Cruz middle class IT jobs are jobs Americans won't do. If you have an IT job you can keep your IT job. Sorry but I cannot support a candidate who will spell the economic ruin of myself and my family.
I’m in IT, and H1B is already a joke and a fraud. However, I have to look at the whole candidate. Santorum would have been best on this issue in 2012, and too many people decided not to support him for other reasons.
It's the non-enforcement of immigration law that is the real problem.
It is not explicitly clear that he reaffirmed his 2013 support of 5x increase in H1B or whether the author is just noting this past position.
They care much more about illegal immigration.
But haters gotta hate.
Dividers gotta divide.
As for me and my house, time, effort, and money are already going to Cruz.
Cruz or lose.
/johnny
Emotions say, "Go Hillary!"
Legal immigration/visas aren't the problem unless one really hasn't a grasp on reality. Cruz remains the staunchest, long-term opponent of illegals and any pathway to citizenship for them. But, reality has nothing to do with it when paralyzing fear, based on emotions get in the way of actual thinking.
You can’t really trust anyone can you. The C of C has everyone by the peepee.I think we should opposed every thing the C of C stands for until we get into the equation(we are not in it now). No more tax cuts for country clubbers or their companies no nothing!
Then don’t support him, but fact of the matter is, there aren’t enough Americans that can do IT jobs. Has nothing to do with want. I also work in the industry and we can’t fill positions because there are no qualified resumes.
Fury rises at Disney over use of foreign workers
ComputerWorld ^ | April 29, 2015 | Patrick Thibodeau / FR Posted by Reno89519
EXCERPTS At the end of October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to receive notice of their layoffs.
[Disney:] "H-1B workers complement - instead of displace - U.S. Workers." It explains that as employers use foreign workers to fill "more technical and low-level jobs, firms are able to expand" and allow U.S. workers "to assume managerial and leadership positions."
"Some of these folks were literally flown in the day before to take over the exact same job I was doing," said one of the IT workers who lost his job. He trained his replacement and is angry over the fact he had to train someone from India "on site, in our country."
It's difficult to determine how many H-1B workers, L-1 visa workers or contractor workers generally, were at this Disney site. --snip-- But one observation all of the workers recounted was the widespread use of Hindi.
"There is no need to have any type of foreigners, boots on the ground, augmenting any type of perceived technological gap," said one worker. "We don't have one, first off." (Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
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The use of H-1B workers to displace U.S. workers is getting more attention in Congress. In response to Southern California Edison's use of foreign labor, 10 U.S. senators recently asked three federal agencies to investigate H-1B use. But one agency, the U.S. Department of Labor, wrote back last week and told the lawmakers that large H-1B using firms "are not prohibited from displacing U.S. workers" as long as they meet certain conditions, such as paying each H-1B worker at least $60,000 a year.
These are the new Obama rules — promised when the president announced his unilateral immigration overhaul last November.
The few Americans who follow such topics have probably heard of the H-1B visa program that brings foreign workers to the United States, but even fewer have heard of the L-1B.
"The L-1B is much worse than the H-1B program in terms of its impacts on American workers and the American economy," says Ron Hira, a professor at Howard University who studies the immigration system. "There are no wage standards — foreign workers can be paid home country wages, which is $6,000 a year for an IT worker in India. American workers can be displaced by L-1B workers. There are no recruitment requirements and no educational requirements (the L-1B worker doesn't even need a degree)."
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Terrible abuses have actually taken place. This is from the opening statement by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, at a hearing last March on immigration reform:
GRASSLEY: "Just last year, a Fremont, California tech company, Electronics for Imaging, Inc., was found by the Department of Labor to have violated the Fair Labor Standards Act for having grossly underpaid a group of Indian nationals who the company had transferred on L-1 visas from its office in India to install a new computer system at the headquarters facility in Fremont. "
"Specifically, the company flew eight L-1B workers from Bangalore, India to California and paid them only $1.21 per hour to work 120-hour weeks. The $1.21 hourly rate was equivalent to what the employees made in Indian rupees at their workplace in India. "
"Importantly, though the company was found by the Department of Labor to have violated the Fair Labor Standards Act for paying the workers below [California's] minimum wage, it did not apparently violate any of the terms or conditions of the visa program because there is no prevailing wage requirement." (Wash/Wxaminer/3/25/15 By Byron York).
Say it ain't so, Joe!
Controlled H1B is a drop in the bucket compared to illegals. We need hotel and convenience store owners too.
And there’s your weekly tidbit of Ted Cruz’s Presidential campaign, folks. We now return you to your regularly scheduled coverage of every second of Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign.
From the article:
“I think we should address these issues one at a time,” Cruz said, arguing that there is consensus for securing the border and reforming the legal immigration system, but stopped short of saying what he would do for those illegal immigrants currently in the country.
From OnTheIssues.com: Ted Cruz's stance on immigration:
•End Obama's illegal amnesty via Congress' checks & balances. (Nov 2014)
•Defund amnesty; and refuse any nominees until rescinded. (Nov 2014)
•No path to citizenship for 1.65 million illegals in Texas. (Oct 2012)
•Give police more power to ask about immigration status. (Jun 2012)
•Boots on the ground, plus a wall. (Apr 2012)
•Triple the size of the Border Patrol. (Mar 2012)
•Strengthen border security and increase enforcement. (Jul 2011)
Cruz hasn't flipped nor flopped.
Walker 2016
5X replacement workers? We’re going to Disneyland. No go Ted.
There is nothing wrong with immigration reform if it goes in the right direction.
Let’s reform it back to the pre-1965 rules.
And restore the pre-Obama days when Border Guards were assigned to actually guarding the border instead of as a Welcome Wagon for illegals.
And prosecute any official or superior who assigns them to Day Care for illegals and changing their dirty diapers.
Well, I guess this blows a hole in the argument that Cruz is better than Walker because Walker appeared “squishy” on immigration.
The argument for HB-1 visas is that it creates jobs sweeping the floor and emptying waste baskets for American basketball players who can’t make it to the NBA.
Cruz just lost my support..
IT cant unionize, its forbidden by federal law
they have already told me that i will never have a raise or promotion for the rest of my life because i am not a protected class. so my indonesian wife and i have to be barren of children, a home, and all that...
will Cruz pay my retirement costs after depressing my salary or forcing me onto welfare because of H1-B visas (Which will continue to depress IT salaries as they have for decades as most compaies violate the laws)
too bad, i liked cruz
but since he too is showing his globalist position and that immigrants are favored over prior immigrants... so i warn the newcomers... once your here as citizen, they will take away what they give you to get you here... evem more so if your not from india, or such countries... if your from russia, slovakia, and europe in general, you have no country, no home, and non want you alive...
sometimes i think it would have been better my family staying in the soviet union... we would have at least kept our homes, our language, our money and then could come here NOW and succeed. the fact we lost our homes, the family was exterminated, we lost our money, our language, came as refugees... i lived in a slum growing up, and was homeless to attand school after bronx science, as they didnt want males then, women were to knock men out. so i worked really hard from when i was 5 years old... was homeless to attend college courses to get a basic degree.
now i am priveleges and have to have what i earned taken away from me, my family exterminated again by socialism, and they want my voting support.
fie on them..
maybe its time to leave the USA before they start loading us into ovens to hurry things along. its not like socialists havent done that before, eh?
If he is for this he is bought and owned by big business no matter what comes out of his mouth. The H1b program is an abject scam and abused with impunity
A lot of the current H1B is a fraud, Cruz has to address this.
There is nothing wrong with increasing H1Bs, but the problem is that these currently displace American workers.
I wish one of these candidates would require companies to make public applications for each H1B. If they are found lying about their application, they should have to pay a fine of equal to 5X the market salary for the position or a minimum of 100k.
Maybe this is Cruz threading the needle for corporate support (money) and once POTUS will take a more pragmatic approach towards American Workers. But I echo what many are saying, we can’t afford to take that chance.